tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1175681583743369857.post542011863760520730..comments2018-12-08T13:34:10.942+01:00Comments on EL ETOS UT: Commemorating Nagasaki bombing, Ban Ki-moon lauds efforts to achieve nuclear-weapon-free worldEL Etoshttps://plus.google.com/111683365675203687716noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1175681583743369857.post-786907961427987652015-08-09T21:07:24.587+02:002015-08-09T21:07:24.587+02:00Nagasaki mayor urges Obama to visit Japanese citie...Nagasaki mayor urges Obama to visit Japanese cities subject to US atomic bombings in 1945...<br /><br />Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue has called on U.S. President Barrack Obama and the leaders of other nuclear powers to visit places of WWII atomic bombings in Japan.<br /><br />I am calling on U.S. President and the leaders of other countries to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki to see personally what happened there 70 years ago,&quot; Taue said on Sunday as he read out the Declaration of Peace at a remembrance ceremony for the victims of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945.<br /><br />&quot;It is necessary to exert every effort to free the world from nuclear weapons,&quot; the mayor of Nagasaki said addressing the world leaders. &quot;We have the strength to safeguard peace without nuclear weapons and war,&quot; he added.<br /><br />Tomihisa Taue also voiced concern over a new Japanese law, which expands the powers of Japan’s self-defense forces.<br /><br />&quot;After the war, Japan embarked on a peaceful path but today more and more people have an impression that the ideology of peace fixed in the Japanese constitution may shake,&quot; the Declaration of Peace said.............http://tass.ru/en/world/813324<br />9/8/15Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com